If you run Ansible in some automated way, you might miss the colored output it gives you when you run it through a terminal. I like it because it helps me to quickly check what has been modified in the run. I couldn’t find anything that did what I wanted, and I didn’t want to mess with the default Ansible output too, so what I did was to build a simple parser that transforms the default output into an html full of colors.

Ansible is an IT orchestration tool I’ve been playing with lately. Similar tools include Chef and Puppet. Some cools things about Ansible is that it is open source, and you don’t need anything in your target machine (it just uses an ssh connection).